Bolting a gun safe through a Pergo floor - any issues?

[Martinjmpr]

Wife and I will be moving to a new house this week and we did our final walk through yesterday. The big issue for me was "where does the gun safe go?" I would prefer to put it on bare concrete but the wife wants it in our basement which has a wood (pergo) floor on top of concrete.

Am I right in thinking that I should be able to just drill through the floor and use slightly longer bolts to bolt it to the concrete? Are there any precautions I should take to avoid damaging/crushing the floor material? We're hiring professional safe movers so once the safe is dropped, that's where it's going to stay.

Safe is a Liberty Fatboy Jr., so it's not huge.

Thanks in advance!

[Wulf202]

The pergo is free floating usually. The weight and Running bolts thru it might cause it to separate at a seam in front of the safe.

Also a when you run the drill thru the pergo don't push down until you hit the concrete. It'll make a smoother hole in the wood. If the bit starts to bind up on the underlayment you might have a problem.

[newracer]

Personally I'd remove the flooring under the footprint of the safe that way the floor can still float and move as designed.

[buffalobo]

May affect warranty on flooring as well.

[Martinjmpr]

Personally I'd remove the flooring under the footprint of the safe that way the floor can still float and move as designed.

What would be the best way to do that? Use a toe-kick saw?

https://www.amazon.com/TruePower-01-0820-Blade-Toe-Kick-Saw/dp/B015YEG1LI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486568109&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=toe-kick+saw&psc=1

[GlockMathews]

if its in the basement on sub grade (concrete) then there should also be a vapor blearier under the under lament...

[buffalobo]

Personally I'd remove the flooring under the footprint of the safe that way the floor can still float and move as designed.
+1

What would be the best way to do that? Use a toe-kick saw?

https://www.amazon.com/TruePower-01-0820-Blade-Toe-Kick-Saw/dp/B015YEG1LI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486568109&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=toe-kick+saw&psc=1
https://www.dremel.com/en_US/products/-/show-product/tools/multi-max-mm30

Very handy tool to have around the new house.

[newracer]

What would be the best way to do that? Use a toe-kick saw? ]

I don't think you would need that specialized of a saw. The edges along the walls are usually not fastened down. The vibratory saw buffalobo posted would work or this one https://www.dremel.com/en_US/products/-/show-product/tools/sm20-01-saw-max-tool-kit The one buffalobo posted would allow you to get closer to the edges if needed.

[Wulf202]

Double tap

[Wulf202]

If you've got a skill saw you can just set that to the depth for the big parts. A hand trim saw for the edge you can't reach

Those Dremel tools are awesome though

[earplug]

Fill it full of old disc brake rotors and relax. Or go fancy and troll craiglist for weightlifting weights.

[SideShow Bob]

Before you get all exited, contact Opie011, about getting you safe into your basement. He saved making a mistake of purchasing a Fat Boy jr.
The 180* turn at the landing half way going down to my basement was too narrow to get that safe down there.

[Irving]

If it's going into the corner, can you just mount it directly to the wall? Either way you're going to drill through some sort of building material.